Tell Dr. Pappas he can kiss my ass.
Ironically, Gone with the Wind is one of the most anti-poor Southern white movies ever made. There are frequent references to "white trash" and in the KKK scene (didn't catch that, did you?), the vigilantes clear out a disreputable area, not of Blacks, but of "white trash." As a matter of fact, a Black former slave rescues Scarlett from the "white trash" who are going to rape her.
Just who did those aristocrats think did their fighting for them, huh???
"Ironically, Gone with the Wind is one of the most anti-poor Southern white movies ever made. There are frequent references to "white trash" "
In "Song of the South" there are two white families, the wealthy family, and then the poor family of the two "white trash" boy villains that are maybe 8 and ten years old.
The movie itself is too sweet and wholesome to call the boys white trash, but we know our movie reviewers will use that language to describe the working class whites if the film is re released.
Even in our "sensitive" age, poor white people are openly called white trash, or crackers, or rednecks, even "trailer trash", etc.